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The number of people who have died from Covid-19 has exceeded 1 million, according to a tally of cases maintained by Johns Hopkins University
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no sign the global death rate is slowing and infections on the rise again in countries that were thought to be controlling their outbreaks months ago.
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But the official figure probably underestimates the true total, a senior World Health Organization official said on Monday.
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“If anything, the numbers currently reported probably represent an underestimate of those individuals who have either contracted Covid-19 or died as a cause of it,” Mike Ryan, the WHO’s top emergencies expert
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The million figure is indicating a tragedy, it tells us a lot of people have died. But what’s crucial is not so much the actual number.
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ome countries report anyone who died with Covid-19 as a death from the virus, even if it is not thought to have been the direct cause,
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“To some extent the quest for the true number of Covid-19 deaths is impossible,” said Gianluca Baio, a professor of statistics and health economics at University College London.
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More than one-fifth of the tallied deaths have occurred in the US, the most of any country in the world
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Despite its imperfections, the recorded death count still paints a picture of a pandemic that escalated with astonishing speed from February and has not relented.